تعاليم اخلاقي و اقتصاد بودايي

Moral Training and Buddhist Economics

Nowadays, adherents of normative Economics believe that detachment normative affaires from positive affaires results in economic problems. There are similarities and dissimilarities between Western Economics and Buddhist Economics. They have some in common, such as identifying three stages of economic process means that, satisfying needs throughout creating, keeping and utilizing wealth. Man can create wealth without any ethical limitations that brings about economic exploitation in Western Economics. Economic normative is related to quality of life in Buddhism. From the viewpoint of Buddhism, the materialistic values and relief is not the whole value of life but mental health and salvation of negative desires is the main goals of Buddhism. Buddhist Economics is a set of rules partly inspired by Buddhist believes. Therefore, moral and social training of Buddhism is the foundation of Buddhist Economics and recognizing the whole economic strategies of Buddhism is impossible without realizing the moral training because of the certain combination of moralities and economic rules. This paper tries to state some of economic rules of Buddhism using the available references.